Collection contains material documenting Rosanne Fitzgibbons' career as an editor and includes correspondence, reports, drafts, notes, teaching notes, and research material relating to editing and publishing. Fitzgibbon won the inaugural Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship Award in 1992 enabling her to spend two months working in Norton Publishing in New York. As well as freelancing editing before, during and after her years spent working at University of Queensland Press, Fitzgibbon also lectured , presented and ran editing workshops around Australia. She was a founding member of the Society of Editors (Queensland). The Institute of Professional Editors initiated in 2017 the biennial award 'The Rosie' ( (the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Award for Editorial Excellence) in her honor.

Photocopies and original newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to University of Queensland Press, Beatrice Davis and Rosanne Fitzgibbons’ and her time in New York, 1992-2010

Folder from the Embassy of Australia in Washington containing:
• Agenda for ‘A.S.A.N.A. Symposium’ 14 Nov 1992
• Dinner menu for ASANA, 14 Nov 1992
• Annual Report 1991 – 1992 for ‘The Edward A. Clark Center for Australian Studies’ The University of Texas at Austin

This is a photocopied manuscript of 'The lingerie catalouge' by Brian Castro and Peter Lyssiotis, which appears to be an unpublished artists book. 'The lingerie catalogue’ was to be part of the 2001 Melbourne Fashion Festival. It was a collaborative work between Brian Castro and Peter Lyssiotis and Masterthief Enterprises.

Personal correspondence, notebooks, curriculum vitae and references. Includes a list of titles and photocopies of inscriptions on the copies of books belong to Fitzgibbon that were returned to the family.

Throughout her career Rosanne Fitzgibbon attended and presented lectures, seminars and workshops on editing and publishing. She presented for the Queensland Writers' Centre, Australian Book Publishers Association, various Writers Festivals, Institute of Professional Editors, Literature Board of the Australian Council and guest presentations for courses at University of Queensland.

Includes: Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship reports Sue Hines (1994), Jacqueline Kent (1995), Bryony Cosgrove (1996), Bernadette Foley (1997) and Jo Jarrah (2000-2001)

Includes: memo, notes, publishing examples and information relating to Norton Publishing, New York while Fitzgibbons was on her Fellowship, 1992 to 1993

Newspaper cuttings relating to the Beatrice Davis Award. -- Letters to Sharon Heade, Selma Shapiro Inc, New York, Sep 1992. --
Newspaper cutting of an article about Beatrice Davis’s passing, undated.

Correspondence with authors and publishing houses regarding editing manuscripts. Contains copies (some partial) of manuscripts (some with annotations) for Gerald Windsor ('All day long the noise of battle'), Hugh Mackay ('What makes us tick?'), Marion Halligan ('Shooting the fox' and 'Murder on the apricot coast'), Brisbane City Council (Brisbane : 150 stories, 1858-2009), and Brian Castro ('Shanghai dancing').